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or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him; or any near relative of his may redeem him; or, if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.

He will calculate with the person who bought him the time from the year he sold himself to him to the year of yovel; and the amount to be paid will be according to the number of years and his time at an employee's wage.

If many years remain, according to them will he refund the amount for his redemption from the amount he was bought for.

If there remain only a few years until the year of yovel, then he will calculate with him; according to his years will he refund the amount for his redemption.

"‘If he has not been redeemed by any of these procedures, nevertheless he will go free in the year of yovel — he and his children with him.

"‘When a person consecrates his house to be holy for Adonai , the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by the cohen will stand.

If the consecrator wishes to redeem his house, he must add one-fifth to the value you have set on it; and it will revert to him.

(RY: vii, LY: v) "‘If a person consecrates to Adonai part of a field belonging to his tribe's possession, you are to value it according to its production, with five bushels of barley being valued at fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds].

If he consecrates his field during the year of yovel, this valuation will stand.

But if he consecrates his field after the yovel, then the cohen is to calculate the price according to the years remaining till the next yovel, with a corresponding reduction from your valuation.

(LY: vi) "‘If he consecrates to Adonai a field which he has bought, a field which is not part of his tribe's possession,

If someone wants to redeem any of his tenth, he must add to it one-fifth.

They are to carry out his duties and the duties of the whole community before the tent of meeting in performing the service of the tabernacle.

Assign the L'vi'im to Aharon and his sons; their one responsibility in regard to the people of Isra'el is to serve him.

You are to appoint Aharon and his sons to carry out the duties of cohanim; anyone else who involves himself is to be put to death."

Those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moshe, Aharon and his sons who were in charge of the Holy Place. They carried out their responsibility on behalf of the people of Isra'el, and anyone else who involved himself was to be put to death.

Give the redemption money for these extra people to Aharon and his sons."

Moshe gave the redemption-money to Aharon and his sons, in keeping with what Adonai had said, as Adonai had ordered Moshe.

when the time comes to break camp, Aharon is to go in with his sons, take down the curtain which serves as a screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it.

When Aharon and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy utensils, when the camp is about to move forward, then the descendants of K'hat are to come and carry them. But they are not to touch the holy things, so that they won't die. These things are the responsibility of the descendants of K'hat in the tent of meeting.